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(v)
(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
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(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
(intransitive) to feel empathy for another person
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To collect normally separate things.
(adj)
Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
(n)
A thorough understanding.
(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.
Able to be comprehended.
(transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand.
The state or quality of being aware of something.
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
(transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
(transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
(transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
To intend.
(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
(ambitransitive) To make or become familiar with something or someone.
(transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
(transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
(transitive) To think about seriously.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
Power of acute observation and deduction
Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
(figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
(transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
(archaic, intransitive) To exist or be compatible.
(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
(transitive) To look at.
Accepted, familiar, researched.
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.
(transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.
(transitive) To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb.
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
(transitive) To find or learn something for the first time.
(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
(transitive) To include (something) as a part.
(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
(transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
(adv)
Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To view as valuable.
(transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate.
(intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
(intransitive) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.
(transitive) To hold inside.
(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
(transitive) To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
(transitive) to amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably
(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
(transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
To provide explanation.
(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
(heading) To capture, overtake.
(intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
(transitive) (figurative) Often followed by out: to deeply understand (someone or something); to get to the bottom of.
An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
(transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
To understand.
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
(transitive) To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.